Quotes About Clarity

I'm not technical.

It's technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you mean, or what you think sounds good, but what's really there, what you really have to express, in words that somehow convey that meaning in an approximate way.

If you broke down my technique, it wouldn't really take a rocket scientist to do so.

You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.

Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.

I've heard of Francis Drake and Ted Drake. But I don't know who Drake is.

When you were a teenager, everything's kind of drawn in primary colors; everything's big, and everything's life or death.

I've tried plenty of telephones. I tried to get into the Samsung Galaxy and the Blackberry, but the iPhone is just too easy to use. The camera takes clear pictures and the phone itself looks great. Like all Apple products, it kind of just makes sense.

I can do without a television or a telephone, I think.

When you do a film, when you do a television show, eventually someone comes along and will say to you, 'Don't say that because, one, you will offend someone, or, two, no one will get that. Someone's going to be confused by that, not get the reference and feel abandoned, and then they will get angry at the entertainment.'

A good mind should tell the difference between noise and music.

I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.

It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.

I'm a businessman who puts up his own money, so I don't have time to hear about emotion. I gotta get right to the point. I'm going to tell you the truth, I'm going to address the elephant in the room, and we'll all move forward.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.

It's the bane of my life and my existence, people telling me to be a little more succinct with what I write.

If I'm really telling someone what's coming ahead of them, then I'm going to say it, and I'm going to own those words.

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

I will say this about the truth - that it's one of those crisis rules, whether you are a client or someone who's living their life just every day - is that the truth has a funny way of not going away, and telling the truth is extremely important in dealing with any problem or crisis.

If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you're going to have.